A compendious view of the grounds of the Teutonick philosophy : with considerations by way of enquiry into the subject matter and scope of the writings of Jacob Behmen, commonly called, the Teutonick philosopher : also several extracts from his writings and some words used by him explained

This World in the third Principle. 73

power @ little forout, and out of the earth difplays it into @ great tree with many. boughs, branches, and fruits ; and then again confumes and reduces all to afhes and earth, from whence they firft proceeded: And. fo alfo- all things of this world do. enter again into the ene pure eternal element whence they. came..

22. When we confider the hierarchy, and the kingly. dominion, in all the three principles. in the place of this world: fo far as the word reached forth itfelf to the creation of the outward world, with the ftars and elements : then. we have the ground of the punétum or central. fire, or radical heat; the point of motion, the virtue of the light, and the royal throne, af which. the whole creation is: but a member. 23. For the ftars, and four elements, and all whatever is{bred and ingendered out of them, and live therein, do hang, or appertain unto. one punctum.; where the divine power bas manifefted irfelf, from itfelf in.a form:. and this punétum ftands in three principles, namely, in three worlds :. nothing can live in this world without this punctum,. it is the only caufe

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